Suspenders.



Patented Nov 26, |90I.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. ADAMS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDERS.

'SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent N0. 687,188, dated November 26, 1901.

Application tiled July 6, 1901.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspenders; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had t'o the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in Suspenders of a type now in common use and known as the President suspender. In said suspender the shoulder-straps are independent and at their rear ends have loop connections through which a cord or evener passes, said cord or evener extending down to the buttonholes and the portion between the straps, as well as the portions between the straps and buttonholes and between the buttonholes themselves, being connected by separate loops through which the cord slides, with a back-web whereby said evener is capable of a universal movement through the loops to adjust or adapt the suspender to the movements of the body of the wearer.

The object of the present invention is lto provide an improved means for holding the cord or evener on each side of the shoulderstraps and at the top of the back-web, the invention consisting in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be now described, and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the back portion of a pair of Suspenders embodying the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a section on the line as, Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference in both gures indicate the same parts.

The shoulder-straps A carry at their rear ends connections or loops B, through which the evener or cord C passes. Said evener is preferably a continuous length of cord or a cylindrical web formed into buttonholes D at the bottom, the portion of the evener between the buttonholes being passed through a loop or connection E, carried by the lower portion of a back strap or web F. This back-strap is adjustable in length by a buckle or slide G and at the upperA end carries a connection Serial No. 6 7, 3 5 3. (Nomoflel.)

having three loops, through which the portion of the evener between the straps and the portions of the evener between the straps and buttonholes pass. The said connection at the top of the back-strap is formed with a body portion H, of sheet metal, with three projections h, to each of which a loop I is pivoted. The pivots of the loops are in substantial alinement', and they all swing or tu rn on their pivots in the same plane, and thus each adapts itself to the movements of the evener in a plane across the back of the-wearer and at the Vsame time permits the evener to play freely back and forth longitudinally. The lower end of the connection H is provided with a long strap-opening for the back-strap, such opening being preferably formed by a wire loop, as at K, around the upper bar of which the lower edge of the connection is bent, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-s 1. In Suspenders, the combination with the shoulderstraps having the loops on their rear ends, the back-strap having the loop at the lower end, and the evener passing through said loops and having the buttonholes at each side of the loop on the back-strap, of a connection carried by the upper end of the backstrap and having two end and one central looped parts, all pivoted to swing in the same plane, those portions of the evener outside of the suspender-ends being passed through the end looped parts and that portion between the said ends being passed through the central looped part of the said connection; substantially as described.

2. A connection for Suspenders of the type specified embodying the body portion having the long strap-opening at the bottom, the projections at the top and the two end and one central looped parts, each separately pivotally mounted on said body to swing in the same plane in which the others swing, whereby said loops may adjust themselves to the movements of an evener in the plane of the body of the connection; substantially as de-v scribed.

GEORGE E. ADAMS. Witnesses SADIEv L. FINNIGAN, G. W. TRAUT.

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